Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson is an open source and open standards consultant.
An autodidact, he wrote mail transfer agents as a teenager, and in the
1990s, found his calling designing and building embedded networking products,
in the security sector. Michael has built multiple IPsec systems, joining
the FreeS/WAN team in 2001, and founding Xelerance in 2003.
Since 2008 Michael has worked in and chaired the IETF ROLL working group,
doing routing protocols for IoT mesh systems. Michael has authored a number
of IoT related RFCs including RFC8366 and RFC7416.
Michael currently works on IoT security systems in the 6tisch, ANIMA
and ACE WG, specializing in the problem of initial bootstrap trust.